Originally Posted by: tehplatypusyou know what i'm noticing lately is a really annoying trend in music? the current wave of indie rock and indie rock popularity. all of a sudden it's becoming trendy to like seattle again and be pretentious(sp?) and all that crap. you know, for as much as i love complex music, i can do without the pretention....unless you're gonna be analytical about it.....don't bull**** how great and complex the latest flaming lips cd is and then snub me when i'm listening to some good old punk rock or ska.


edit: my bad, haven't been here in a while, forgot about the censoring.

Man I don't really understand what your saying, but In my opion, the last wave out of seattle was one of the best periods of modern rock. I regard Kurt Coban as I do Jimi Hendrix. Although the things Cobain played were rather easy; he made sounds come out of the guitar that were unheard of.